{
  "example_kind": "original synthetic manual planning case",
  "slug": "expiring-opportunity-window",
  "title": "Schedule a task whose value has an expiry window",
  "scenario": "Synthetic planning case: A two-day preparation task has a receiving opportunity at the end of model day three. A higher-scored routine task needs three days and has no deadline inside the next five days. Both use the same sole resource.",
  "layout": "allocation",
  "dataset": {
    "heading": "Inspect the invented case records",
    "headers": [
      "Task",
      "Model duration",
      "Receiving window",
      "Finish if routine goes first"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "Preparation",
        "2 days",
        "By day 3",
        "Day 5: misses"
      ],
      [
        "Routine",
        "3 days",
        "No deadline through day 5",
        "Day 3"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "derivation": "Routine-first uses days zero to three, then preparation to five. Preparation-first finishes preparation at two and routine at five under the supplied exclusive-resource model.",
  "result": "If the time-limited opportunity is an accepted obligation, doing the routine task first would make preparation finish at day five and miss it. Review sequencing before following the score order.",
  "boundary": "The artifact compares sequence feasibility when one accepted outcome has a genuine expiry window.",
  "limitations": "Opportunity timing is a supplied rule, not a claim of actual commercial value or a promised deadline.",
  "sources": [
    "original"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    [
      "Confirm real expiry meaning",
      "Receiving owner",
      "The preparation output must be usable by day three; a label alone is not the requirement."
    ],
    [
      "Compare both orders",
      "Planner",
      "One order meets both stated windows and the score-first order misses preparation."
    ],
    [
      "Agree the timing tradeoff",
      "Decision owner",
      "Sequence reflects the accepted receiving windows without inventing value beyond expiry."
    ]
  ],
  "faqs": [
    [
      "Must every expiring opportunity outrank everything?",
      "No. First confirm it is an accepted obligation and consider all competing required windows."
    ],
    [
      "Can we overlap the two tasks?",
      "Not with the same exclusive resource in this model; extra eligible capacity would change the assumptions."
    ]
  ],
  "method_references": [
    {
      "id": "original",
      "title": "Original worked-case definitions",
      "scope": "Definitions, policy choices, records and calculations are authored for this worksheet. No external standard, statistical validation or live product measurement is claimed."
    }
  ]
}